Thorax,

an international journal from BMJ and BTS, publishes high impact research across all areas of respiratory medicine and critical care

Impact Factor: 10.8
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Thorax is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

Thorax is one of the world's leading respiratory medicine journals, publishing clinical and experimental research articles on respiratory medicine, paediatrics, immunology, pharmacology, pathology, and surgery. Thorax seeks to publish significant advances in scientific understanding, which are likely to impact on clinical practice. This includes articles concerning basic and translational mechanisms with application to clinical material (cell and molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and immunology).

Thorax is an official journal of the British Thoracic Society and is a companion to BMJ Open Respiratory Research.

Editors-in-Chief
Professor Jennifer Quint, Professor Mark Griffiths & Professor Cecilia O'Kane
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Current Issue

Visual Abstracts

Thorax invites authors of original research to provide a visual abstract to accompany their paper and to present the key findings of the work.

Visual abstracts are a useful tool to provide summaries of the latest research in a single, visual format.

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Authors

Thorax accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, state of the art reviews and protocols.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for Thorax.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Interstitial lung disease:

Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study

29 November 2024

Lung cancer:

Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult

29 November 2024

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?

25 November 2024

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Optimising bronchoalveolar lavage: lessons from alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

25 November 2024

Asthma:

Neuropsychiatric side effects of montelukast: time to change prescribing practice?

22 November 2024

Most Read Articles

Guideline summary:

British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease

17 October 2023

Environmental exposure:

Secondhand nicotine vaping at home and respiratory symptoms in young adults

18 October 2023

Respiratory research:

Not all vaping is the same: differential pulmonary effects of vaping cannabidiol versus nicotine

8 November 2023

Environmental exposure:

Air pollution and respiratory health in patients with COPD: should we focus on indoor or outdoor sources?

14 November 2024

State of the art review:

Diagnosis of cystic lung diseases: a position statement from the UK Cystic Lung Disease Rare Disease Collaborative Network

15 March 2024

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Effects of moderate alcohol consumption and hypobaric hypoxia: implications for passengers’ sleep, oxygen saturation and heart rate on long-haul flights
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Smoking and COVID-19 outcomes: an observational and Mendelian randomisation study using the UK Biobank cohort
27 September 2021

Relationship between cumulative silica exposure and silicosis: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
6 August 2024

Secondhand nicotine vaping at home and respiratory symptoms in young adults
10 January 2022

Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke: a natural experiment in England and Scotland
27 January 2020

Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study
27 February 2024

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